Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here is some psychedelic 1930s Japanese children’s illustration to start your week. Dolphins are better at math than I am. I am glad to know that someone is preserving Luke…
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Aurora Shooting Roundup
Our thoughts are with the victims of today’s tragedy: 12 people were killed and 59 wounded by gunman at a movie theater outside of Denver, Colorado early this morning during…
Who’s the Fairest Skater of Them All?
The New Yorker‘s James Guida comments on Transworld Skateboarding‘s 30th anniversary interviews with skating legends from across skateboarding’s long history. Guida sees the project as a kind of oral history,…
Tiny Beautiful Things, Best Seller!
Tiny Beautiful Things, Cheryl Strayed’s newly released collection of Dear Sugar columns, debuts at number five on The New York Times Paperback Advice Best Seller list! Hooray! To order the book…
Olympic Art
England has some great artwork in the mix for the London Cultural Olympiad, which coincides with the start of the Games later this month: Nowhereisland: Alex Hartley, an artist known…
Help Tomorrow Now!
Early last month GOOD magazine fired its entire editorial staff and instead of receding into the dismal ether of unemployment, the ex-GOOD magaziners banned together to make a single issue…
“What happens when velocity gives out”
“In the end, what makes ‘A Hologram for the King’ is the conviction with which Eggers plunges into the kind of regular working American we don’t see enough in contemporary…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
For a mere 80,000 pounds you too could know the unending horrors of Scott’s polar expedition. It is time to celebrate the valiant work of the Hermitage’s security cats. AHHH!…
Pre-Olympic Pre-Emptive Strikes
London authorities are bent on making sure that the Olympics Games will proceed without a hitch. Their strategies include arresting people who they think may pose a threat to that…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It is probably a bad idea to stand under an atomic explosion. We don’t usually link to anything Lego related, but did you know that there is a vault containing…
A NEW KIND OF NEIGHBORHOOD LIBRARY
The New York Times writes about community-generated libraries that are popping up on sidewalks across the country. Little Free Libraries are small wooden boxes full of books with latched glass…
Steve Almond on Comedy and Politics
“Why take to the streets when Stewart and Colbert are on the case? It’s a lot easier, and more fun, to experience the war as a passive form of entertainment…